Been noticing that the stars showing hte rating of my pics on this page: http://www.rockclimbing.com/cgi-bin/photos/bookmark.cgi are all grayed out when they seem like they should shw their rating (the pictures have been voted on btw as the stars show up in other screens).

We conslidated how avarages are calculated to get some performance gains. That actually broke the star ratings everywhere in the "Gallery View" (thumbnails next to each other) Fixed it up. Check it out and let me know.

Cool that looks like it fixed it. but since you mention gallery layout...

When viewing peoples profiles and clicking hte photos submitted link to show that persons pictures, the old site had this laid out in the thumbnail gallery. I asked about this in beta and I think Daniel said to change my settings to Gallery view. It doesnt work. I still see a list with a lot of text.

Nope you're not missing something. Viewing a users photos is effectively a set of "search results" using that username as the search query. All search results are currently displayed in List format. I can not really think why we can't have search results honor the user preference settings. Let me look into this. If there's a reason why this has to be a list I'll let you know.